Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X
: System Administration
: My keyboard mappings are wrong for my system. How can I fix them?
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9.4. My keyboard mappings are wrong for my system. How can I fix them?
The kbdcontrol program has an option to load a keyboard map file.
Under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps are a number of map
files. Choose the one relevant to your system and load it.
kbdcontrol -l uk.iso
Both the /usr/share/syscons/keymaps and the .kbd
extension are assumed by kbdcontrol(1).
This can be configured in /etc/sysconfig. See the
appropriate comments in tis file.
In 2.0.5R, everything related to text fonts, keyboard mapping is
in /usr/share/examples/syscons.
The following mappings are currently supported:
- Danish (both ISO and cp865),
- French (ISO only),
- German (both ISO and cp850),
- Russian
- Swedish (both ISO and cp850),
- U.K. (both ISO and cp850),
- Spain
- U.S.A. (ISO only).
Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X
: System Administration
: My keyboard mappings are wrong for my system. How can I fix them?
Previous: <XXX> I'm trying to use my printer and keep running into problems. I tried looking at /etc/printcap, but it's close to useless. Any ideas?
Next: Networking